15 Sep
2015
15 Sep
'15
12:05 p.m.
On 09/15/2015 11:49 AM, Richard Loken wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Most likely COBOL. The GSA types were doing a lot of it back when I
remember the number. Probably punched into cards.
Could also have been RPG, or less likely FORTRAN. Back when I heard the
statistic, I don't think that federal types had used C. Maybe JOVIAL or
Autocoder...
--Chuck
Maybe that's changed today. I remember
seeing a figure of 11
debugged lines of code per day per programmer as the average for a
GSA programmer back in the 1980s.
I remeber that statistic from my youth, too. What kind of code?
Fortran? APL? Cobol? Assember? C?